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Community Pledge
Your community, our pledge
The Community Pledge goes above and beyond planning obligations, in fact its an evolution of work we’ve been doing for many years within the communities in which we build, ensuring that we support the local areas and people who live there.
The roll out of Community Pledge forms a significant part of our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) commitments. The positive actions from the outcomes of each Community Pledge will be embedded into the ongoing strategy of our business.
It’s our Pledge to you, our local communities, and we can’t wait to see the difference it will make.
Cala's Community Pledge
We are committed to bringing added value and meaningful benefit to the communities in which we build, not just through the homes we create, but by investing and enhancing in the very essence of what brings a local community together. We want to listen, take action and make a difference.
To reflect our commitment to our communities over the lifecycle of our developments, we have introduced our Community Pledge. Our Pledges bring together a host of bespoke measures for each local community including activities, donations, initiatives, volunteering drives and much more.
Each Pledge will start from the conception of the development, right through to the last resident picking up the keys to their new home – and everything will be done in collaboration with the communities we seek to support, to make sure we address genuine local needs.
Our Pledges will encompass key core activity, including:
Land to Life
Our curriculum-based schools programme for children between the ages of seven and eleven to build grassroots awareness of how new homes are developed and the important role that house builders play in creating sustainable new communities.
Stay Safe, Stay Away
Our school health and safety learning programme to raise awareness amongst young people of the dangers of playing on construction sites.
Urban Wildlife Strategy
Cala's Urban Wildlife Strategy outlines our intention to incorporate a range of wildlife-friendly measures into every new home we build.
Community Pledge in Action
Hear from our community partners
Sir Gerald Archer, founder of the Chatter Bus:
“Prior to us starting the Chatter Bus, we saw a real transport poverty in the area. Now, we’ve seen a huge response from locals and passenger numbers are at their highest since we began. We’re also called the Chatter Bus service for a reason; we’ll always listen to what the community needs from our service. Whether it’s lending a helping hand to someone unable to get on the bus easily or speaking to parents and updating our bus timetable during exam season – we’ll do whatever we can as we’re very much a local service for our community. We’re so grateful to donations such as Cala’s as we help support our community.”
Chatter Bus is a rural charity bus service in Cobham and Oxshott which received a £2000 donation as part of the Community Pledge for Cala’s Treetops, Oxshott development, enabling the service to operate for the rest of the year and extend its route.
Keith Giblett, Chair of Queensferry and District Community Council:
“Cala’s support is invaluable and of tremendous benefit to the many groups which make Queensferry the caring community it is. Cala has already helped with a number of community engagement projects to date, including supporting local families at risk due to the cost of living crisis over Christmas through the Ferry Elves project, providing new football strips for pupils at Echline Primary School and, more recently, working with local Green Ferry volunteers to create the new community orchard at Hawthorn Bank. The development of the new South Queensferry Community Pledge will ensure this support continues for the benefit of people living here for years to come.”
Cala’s East of Scotland team has consulted extensively with Queensferry and District Community Council to shape the Pledge for South Queensferry.
Get in touch
Requests for Cala’s support should now be directed to our regional Pledge teams. You can contact the relevant team via the emails below.
Our teams receive a high number of enquiries and are not able to respond to everyone. But please be assured your email has been received and the team will be in touch if we can support.
Your request should highlight whether your cause/organisation is located within close proximity of a Cala development and/or that your cause/organisation has a positive impact in a community surrounding one of our developments. You can use our ‘homes for sale’ website search function to find your nearest Cala development.
We look forward to hearing from you.
East of Scotland
Perth and Kinross, Fife, Edinburgh, The Lothian's and Scottish Borders.
West of Scotland
East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire, Glasgow, North & South Lanarkshire.
North of Scotland
Aberdeen City Centre, Aberdeen City suburbs, Ellon, Newmachar, Inverurie, Kintore, Westhill, Banchory, Portlethen, Newtonhill and Stonehaven.
Chiltern
Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, South Oxfordshire, West Berkshire, Hertfordshire and West London.
Cotswolds
Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Solihull, Warwickshire and Wiltshire.
South Home Counties
Kent, Surrey, East Sussex, West Sussex and South London.
North Home Counties
Cambridgeshire, Essex, West and South Suffolk, and East London Boroughs.
Thames
Hampshire, Surrey, Berkshire and Dorset.
